Super Best Audio Friends

  1. Lobby

    General sub-forum area. New members must read the stickied posts in the Tales from the Bully Pulpit sub-forum before posting.

    1. Tales from the Bully Pulpit

      Must read stuff and important announcements.
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      1. How to Win Friends and Influence People

      2. Ambiophonics

      Latest: New Members - Introduce Yourself Johnston98 Jun 16, 2019 at 5:48 PM
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    2. General Audio Discussion

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      1. Advice Threads

      2. Leaderboard, Overboard, and Deals

      Latest: The All Purpose Advice Thread ergopower Jun 16, 2019 at 8:23 PM
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    3. Music and Recordings

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      1. Music and Recordings (vinyl , 8-track, etc.)

      Latest: What are you listening to right now? (2nd Part) YMO Jun 16, 2019 at 6:52 PM
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    4. The Meeting Place

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      Latest: CanJam μ (meet @ Marv's in Malibu Canyon) PTS Jun 16, 2019 at 8:56 PM
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    5. Audio Science

      Discussion of blind testing, psychoacoustics, and measurement techniques. Also, preliminary, research, and exploratory measurements should generally be posted here unless the results of your measurement rigs have been established and well known. This is to prevent confusion and difficulty in comparing one measurement with another. Excessive insistence on only very difficult to implement double blind testing results in an automatic one week ban or worse.
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      1. Blind Testing and Psychoacoustics

      2. Measurement Techniques Discussion

      Latest: MiniDSP EARS: Deriving SBAF compensations from MiniDSP files? purr1n Jun 1, 2019
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    6. All Points Bulletin / Be on the Look Out

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      Latest: 403 Errors shotgunshane May 22, 2019
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  2. Personal Audio Gear Discussion

    Personal audio gear reviews , subjective impressions, thoughts, and questions about gear. Any post with a measurement should go in the measurements section below.

    1. Headphones

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      Latest: Focal Elegia Johnston98 Jun 16, 2019 at 5:57 PM
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    2. Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units

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      Latest: Soekris "dac1541": DAC/Amp - Stream of Consciousness Impressions Syzygy Jun 16, 2019 at 3:53 PM
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    3. IEMs and Portable Gear

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      Latest: DAP talk (formerly best DAPs 2015) Royalty Jun 16, 2019 at 5:50 PM
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    4. Modifications and Tweaks

      Mods, tweaks, cables, power conditioning, etc.
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      Latest: Sennheiser HD650 front foam... Royalty Jun 12, 2019 at 6:45 PM
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  3. Source Gear Discussion

    1. Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers

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      Latest: Passive Volume Control for DACs/Sources Kernel Kurtz Jun 16, 2019 at 2:56 PM
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    2. Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools

      Players, streamers, operating systems, settings, tagging, etc.
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      Latest: Music Streaming Services psuKinger Jun 11, 2019 at 5:10 AM
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    3. Vinyl Nutjob World: Turntable and Related Gear

      Anything related to vinyl playback, turntables, cartridges, phonostages, setup, discussions, measurements, etc.
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      Latest: Phono pre-amp discussion RatSalad Jun 16, 2019 at 12:03 PM
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  4. Two Channel Gear Discussion

    1. Preamps

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      Latest: 4 New Schiit Preamps (Saga and Freya variants) Taverius Jun 12, 2019 at 1:57 AM
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    2. Power Amps

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      Latest: Solid-State Power Amp Adventures Thenewerguy009 Jun 16, 2019 at 3:00 PM
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    3. Speakers

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      Latest: Nearfields for audiophile listening? ultrabike Jun 16, 2019 at 3:39 PM
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  5. Measurements (plus subjective impressions)

    Measurements with subjective impressions. Hands, Marv, Ultrabike, AtomicBob, Sorrodje, and cskippy. Unless your measurements have been sanctioned, please post them in the "Audio Science" sub-forum above. To is to prevent confusion as different measurement setups will have different results. Note that Hands' coupler has pinna, which will bump up the 2-3.5kHz region a little bit.

    1. Headphone Measurements

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      Latest: Verum Audio - Exciting high performance DIY planar Phantaminum Jun 15, 2019 at 9:49 PM
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    2. IEM Measurements

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      1. IEM Measurements - La Cenric's IEM Playhouse

      Latest: Sony IER-Z1R Review and Measurements purr1n Jun 13, 2019 at 11:07 PM
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    3. Headphone Amplifier Measurements

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      Latest: Loxjie P20 technical measurements Baten May 2, 2019
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    4. Source Measurements

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      Latest: Denafrips Terminator DAC measurements Vtory May 12, 2019
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    5. Portable and Other Gear Measurements

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      Latest: Riva Turbo X Review (mini) and Measurements fraggler Jun 7, 2019
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    6. Measurement Setups, Systems, and Standards

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      Latest: New portable headphone measuring setup La Cenric Dec 16, 2018
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  6. SuperBAF Special Sub-Forums

    Some of these sub-forums may be restricted to Friends or Contributors. Of course if you can't see it, then it doesn't exist.

    1. EU Forum

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      Latest: FFriends aka French Friends aka Freedom Fries cocolinho Apr 29, 2019
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    2. Loaner Programs

      Loaner program logistics only. Impressions should be in their respective gear category subforums.
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      1. Closed Loaners

      2. Loaner Requests

      Latest: Loaner: Loxjie P20 and Project Sunrise headamps sheldaze Jun 16, 2019 at 1:42 PM
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    3. SBAF Blogs

      Please don't start a random blog in this sub-forum. This sub-forum is reserved for VIPs.
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      Latest: Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog geniekid Mar 20, 2019
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    4. DIY

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      Latest: My project "JLH-69" Zampotech Jun 14, 2019 at 1:09 PM
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    5. For Sale

      HF is probably a better place to reach people for selling most stuff. We reach the same kinds of people as HF, but HF gets 7,000,000 sessions and 35,000,000 pageviews per month. We are about 1000 times smaller and the members here are much more selective in what they purchase.
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      1. Closed (Archived) Sales

      2. Buyer and Seller Feedback (Negative)

      Latest: FS: Rhapsodio RD3 with Rhapsodio 5n Silver plated OCC upgrade cable Luckbad Jun 16, 2019 at 4:53 PM
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  7. Non-Audio Stuff

    1. Random Thoughts

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      1. City Guides

      2. Birthdays

      3. Health

      Latest: What show are you watching now? Pharmaboy Jun 15, 2019 at 4:25 PM
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    2. Outdoor World

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      Latest: Camping gear fraggler Jun 14, 2019 at 3:45 PM
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    3. Geek Cave: Computers, Tablets, HT, Phones, Games

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      1. Lego and Other Building Bricks

      2. Clash of Clans

      Latest: Watch Thread Zhanming057 Jun 13, 2019 at 10:54 AM
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    4. Food and Drink

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      Latest: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW? ergopower Jun 16, 2019 at 8:26 PM
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    5. Musicians and Instruments

      SHow off your musical instruments and post what instruments you have and your musical accomplishments! Even if you play an instrument just as a hobby, please post your pics and descriptions!
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      Latest: Show off your musical instruments! aornic May 22, 2019
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    6. Photography and Cameras

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      Latest: Post Your Favorite Photos (Must have been taken by you!) Syzygy Jun 16, 2019 at 6:02 PM
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    7. Cars, Motorcycles, Boats, Airplanes Talk

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      Latest: Cruiser bike for family recommendations yotacowboy Jun 12, 2019 at 4:53 PM
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  8. Industry Sub-Forums

    1. Product Announcements

      MoTs: Please introduce yourselves first before posting.
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      Latest: Headphone amplifier KIT "Lunch Box II" Armaegis Jun 6, 2019
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    2. Beezar

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      Latest: Beezar Audio/ECP Audio History Luckbad May 4, 2019
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    3. Bloom Audio

      https://bloomaudio.com/
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      Latest: Special SBAF Pricing on Focal Stellia and Elegia Ardacer Jun 16, 2019 at 6:37 AM
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    4. Schiit

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      Latest: The Mike Moffat (#2 at Schiit) Blog astromo Jun 5, 2019
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    5. The Source Audio Video Design Group (TSAV)

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      Latest: TSAV @ CanJam SoCal 2019 Bloom Jun 5, 2019
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    6. Eddie Current

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      Latest: EC Aficionado (was: The Studio Jr.) Maxx134 Jun 1, 2019
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